From the post:
>On a small dot of land just a mile from the coast sits a creepy off-limits federal research facility established in 1954.
Operated by the Department of Homeland Security, Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York studies highly transmissible animal diseases that the government says are not a threat to human health.
But fringe theorists, mainstream podcasters and even members of Congress have raised suspicions that the Plum Island facility is also ground zero for one of America's most pernicious illnesses: Lyme disease.
First diagnosed in the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, Lyme disease is a tick-borne bacterial infection contracted by an estimated 30,000 people per year in the US alone. And, left untreated, the disease can cause potentially fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
From the post:
>>On a small dot of land just a mile from the coast sits a creepy off-limits federal research facility established in 1954.
Operated by the Department of Homeland Security, Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York studies highly transmissible animal diseases that the government says are not a threat to human health.
But fringe theorists, mainstream podcasters and even members of Congress have raised suspicions that the Plum Island facility is also ground zero for one of America's most pernicious illnesses: Lyme disease.
First diagnosed in the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, Lyme disease is a tick-borne bacterial infection contracted by an estimated 30,000 people per year in the US alone. And, left untreated, the disease can cause potentially fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
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